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"A genuinely shocking book about Elvis Presley," Martin Amis wrote in the 1980s, "would disclose that the King secretly gave away vast sums to charity, that he was actually very slim and healthy, and spent much of his free time working with handicapped children." The latest controversy coming from Britain involving Prince Harry—this time a video of him referring to a Pakistani cadet as "our little Paki friend"—merits a similar response: A truly shocking story would be one where a young prince who tragically lost his mother a few years ago and whose every move the media follows, ready to pounce, is never caught saying anything inappropriate.